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What is the Maximum Energy for a Child on a Pogo Stick?

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Can Elastic Collisions Be Solved Quickly with Minimal Steps?

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How Does Conservation of Energy Determine Final Speed?

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Kinematics questions from a new physics student

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Electricity, force, and component form

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How Can You Demonstrate Angular Velocity and Acceleration in Class?

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Why is drinking through a straw easier on Earth than on the moon?

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What Force Accelerates a Car When You Push the Accelerator?

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Why Heat Shields are Necessary for Crewed Spacecraft Re-Entry

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Tarzan's River Crossing Dilemma: Can He Swing Across Safely?

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Average speed for a round trip with different speeds each way

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How Would You Apply Newton's Laws With Rock Climbing?

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Understanding Parity in Quantum Mechanics

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What is the fraction of an iceberg's volume exposed in seawater?

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Can a 5.0W pump save a sinking boat taking on 14.0 liters per minute?

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Calculating Distance of Falling Rock

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Spring Simple Harmonic Motion problem

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Horizontal and vertical forces on door hinges

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How Do You Calculate Force in a Momentum Problem?

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How Does Angular Acceleration Affect Spacecraft and Clock Movements?

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Where is the center of gravity of this person

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Millennium Theory of Inertia and Gravity

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Baseball projectile motion with wall clearance

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Two Blocks, Springs, and Friction

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How are pictures drawn by M.C. Escher breaking the laws of physics?

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Calculating Electron Strike Rate in an X-Ray Tube at 50mA Current

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Demonstrating angular velocity and accelaration

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Why Might the Efficiency of a Stirling Engine Differ from a Carnot Engine?

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Distance from sound source using intensity levels at two points

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How Do You Calculate the Electric Potential Difference Between Two Points?

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Net force on hot-air balloon with 1.5 m³ volume at 75°C

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Is the magnetic part of the Lorentz force conservative?

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Earth's moment of inertia 0.331MR² and mass distribution

  • syncstarr
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Understanding Voltage Divider Rule in Parallel Circuits

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Max Height of Lamp Push for Sliding vs. Tipping

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Calculating Acceleration and Velocity of a Boat in Motion

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Why does Faraday's law work for both moving wires and changing fields?

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How Do You Solve Momentum and Collision Problems in Physics?

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Solving Weak Interactions: W- vs W+

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Finding marble mass and count from bag masses

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Gauge pressure and fluids problem

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How Do You Calculate Car Acceleration from a Hanging Object's Angle?

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Torque on crane arm and load limit

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Solve Physics Hang Time Problem on Webassign with One Submission Left

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Finding the Root of a Quadratic Equation with Factoring Difficulty

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Calculating Angular Velocity and Energy Loss in a System of Two Rotating Discs

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Specific and latent heat question

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How Do You Solve a Rotational Equilibrium Problem Involving a Meterstick?

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Relationship between say an opening and the wavelength

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Banking angle for a frictionless curved exit ramp

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What is the acceleration of a buoyant alcohol-filled shell in water?

  • AG1189
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How Do You Calculate Forces in Rotational Equilibrium Problems?

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Spring Constant and Distance: Find the Stretch of Each Spring

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Measuring friction with elastic band stretch instead of spring scale

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Force & Springs Homework: Find Magnitude of F & Compression of Spring

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How Fast Do Electrons Travel in a TV Tube?

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The Photoelectric effect and classical physics

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How Many Feet Are in a Light-Second?

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By how much does each spring stretch?

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Determining the satellite's altitude above the surface of the Earth

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How Do You Calculate Forces and Friction in Everyday Motion Scenarios?

  • pharm89
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How Do You Calculate Work and Internal Energy in Thermodynamics?

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Flywheel and spinning sphere dropped into cavity at different axes

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Gravitacional Field and momentum conservation

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EEI project ideas for final year physics

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Can You Build a Speaker from Scratch?

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Entropy of a Refrigerator: Is It Constant?

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Rotational Motion of compact disc

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Kepler's Laws-What am I doing wrong here?

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MOTION EQUATION what am I missing here?

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Centripetal acceleration car problem

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Magnitude, force and acceleration questions

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Is Work Done While Walking Without External Force Applied?

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Calculating Average Kinetic Energy of a Running Boy

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Demonstrating Newton's laws for a science competition project

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What Are the Key Principles of Static and Dynamic Equilibrium in Physics?

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Ballistic Pendulum and Projectile Motion

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Why does Gauss's law apply to non-spherical surfaces?

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Electric Potential Conductor Problem

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Force on Cannon After Firing: Solving the Problem

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The force tha apears betwin the plates of a capacitor

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Lithium-6 bombarded with proton produces alpha particle

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Harmonic oscillator, friction, impulse

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How Fast Will Box A Hit the Floor in a Pulley System?

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Circuit analysis (thevenin equivalence)

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Internal voltage and resistance of a power supply

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Designing a newspaper bridge with Warren truss for stress testing

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Couple More Questions on Electrostatics

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Paper roll unrolling on a horizontal surface

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Hi, with vectors in diff directions

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Solving Physics Problems: Tension, Friction, and Acceleration Explained

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Are gamma rays more dangerous than alpha or beta particles?

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Isobaric Process: del(H) = mC(v)dT + (P.dV)/J

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Units of C(p) and C(v) in equation (1) are Joule/Kilogram-Kelvin.

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